The Ultimate Seduction: My Secret Crush Has Been Plotting to Win Me Over

[Mutual secret crush + both virgins + healing + fake playboy + Beijing social scene]

In Shen Qihe’s eyes, Wen Yunli was cool and aloof, like the bright moon hanging high in the autumn night, and like a proud, solitary wolf wandering across a vast wilderness.

The young man’s white shirt was never quite buttoned properly.

That flamboyant summer, with cicadas singing all around, Shen Qihe wore his favorite white dress and held a pink envelope in her hand.

But she never managed to give it to him.

A sudden downpour stained her white dress, and the love letter she threw away.

A secret crush could never see the light of day. It grew wildly in a desolate wasteland filled with dread.

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When they met again, he was known for his many affairs and his playboy ways.

Shen Qihe couldn’t accept it.

Reason told her they should go their separate ways, yet she couldn’t stop herself from edging closer to him.

Everyone said Wen Yunli was wild and carefree, but Shen Qihe knew he was really just like the hedgehog he kept.

Sensitive, suspicious, covered in prickles, but with one soft spot on his belly.

He showed it only to Shen Qihe.

Later, he held Shen Qihe’s hand, as devout as a believer, and said, “Xiao Qi, you’re mine. You can’t leave me.”

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Shen Qihe had loved Wen Yunli from their youth to this day, and would love him for all the years to come. She had never regretted it.

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Many years later, Shen Qihe learned that Wen Yunli had kept the love letter she threw away all those years ago. He had treasured it for years, and it was the only thing he could hold on to during those absurd, joyless days.

It turned out she was the unattainable first love of his youth.